Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?
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John Hasler wrote:
> I wrote:
>> A bug. It is unreasonable to expect a user to know to do 'info
>> coreutils' to learn about hostid, head, or any of the many other
>> utilities that are fully documented only in the coreutils info files
>
> This is a known bug. See #483554.
It's worse than that. konqueror 'info:/coreutils/hostid invocation' does
not give much more information. It just shows an example:
> For example, here's what it prints on one system I use:
> $ hostid
> 1bac013d
>
>
> On that system, the 32-bit quantity happens to be closely related to the system's Internet address, but that isn't always the case.
> An exit status of zero indicates success, and a nonzero value indicates failure.
Johannes
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